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buy
slang To believe or accept something as true or feasible without question or investigation. I can't believe the boss bought my excuse for missing work yesterday. A: "I keep telling you, the cats knocked over your vase!" B: "Yeah, I'm not buying it." The playroom is a total mess, and there's no way Mom is gonna buy that a ghost did it.
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buy something (from someone) (for something)
to purchase something from someone at a particular price, or for a particular type of payment, such as for cash, for practically nothing, etc. I bought the car from Mark for a reasonable price. I bought it for a reasonable price from Mark.
buy something
Fig. to believe something someone says; to accept something to be a fact. It may be true, but I don't buy it. I just don't buy the idea that you can swim that far.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
bought
see under buy.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
buy
1. n. a purchase. Man, this is a great buy.
2. tv. to believe something. It sounds good to me, but will your wife buy it?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- (Can I) buy you a drink?
- (if) you break it, you buy it
- (one) could buy and sell (someone)
- best buy
- bought
- buy
- buy (one's) way in(to) (something)
- buy (one's) way out (of something)
- buy (something) for a song
- buy (something) off the shelf
- buy (something) on credit
- buy (something) on tick
- buy (something) on time
- buy (something) sight unseen
- buy (yourself) time
- buy a lemon
- buy a one-way ticket to (something)
- buy a pig in a poke
- buy a pup
- buy a round
- buy a/(one's) wolf ticket
- buy a/(one's) woof ticket
- buy a/the round (of drinks)
- buy at
- buy back
- buy cheap, buy twice
- buy golden opinions
- buy in
- buy into
- buy into (something)
- buy into, to
- buy it
- buy low, sell high
- buy off
- buy off on (something)
- buy on credit
- buy on time
- buy out
- buy sight unseen
- buy someone's woof ticket
- buy something
- buy straw hats in winter
- buy the big one
- buy the box
- buy the farm
- buy the rabbit
- buy time
- buy to let
- buy trouble
- buy up
- buy way in
- buy way out
- buy wolf ticket
- buy wolf tickets
- buy you a drink?
- buy, get, etc. something off the shelf
- buydown
- do over
- don't buy a pig in a poke
- for a song
- for a song, to go/to buy/to sell
- get (something) off the shelf
- get (something) on tick
- get, buy, etc. something on tick
- go for a song
- I don't buy green bananas
- Jinx, buy me a Coke!
- money can't buy happiness
- not buy
- not buy (something)
- pig in a poke, to buy a
- sell (one) a pup
- sell for a song
- sell somebody/buy a pup
- That and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee.
- That and fifty cents will buy you a cup of coffee.
- the best (that) money can buy
- there are some things money can't buy
- to go
- Why buy a cow when (the) milk is free?
- Why buy a cow when milk is (so) cheap?
- Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free?
- Why buy a/the cow when you can get (the) milk for free?